Newbie Chip question
- Thread starter Bear Dog
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Do you have datamaster/diacom?
If you plan on running anything but the stock chip, I'd get a scantool first.
I haven't heard much about that chip, but I wouldn't trust just throwing it in and running it.
These trucks are very sensitive.
My advice... if you are relatively new to the syty scene, then get started slowly.
And first off make sure you upgrade your fuel pump and fuel press reg. That will be necessary before you start running different chips.
HTH.
Scott
If you plan on running anything but the stock chip, I'd get a scantool first.
I haven't heard much about that chip, but I wouldn't trust just throwing it in and running it.
These trucks are very sensitive.
My advice... if you are relatively new to the syty scene, then get started slowly.
And first off make sure you upgrade your fuel pump and fuel press reg. That will be necessary before you start running different chips.
HTH.
Scott
InvisiBill
Active member
http://www.syty.org/old/promguide.html
That doesn't say much, but the features they do show, it's just got a lower IC turn-on temp. The calibrations are probably tweaked a bit or something. Most likely standard tweaks that they do on all chips or something, but it doesn't look like they've done anything insanely stupid like totally disabling knock retard... It's probably just a tiny bit of improvement over the stock chip, pretty expensive compared to a real tuned chip like the Ultimate.
That doesn't say much, but the features they do show, it's just got a lower IC turn-on temp. The calibrations are probably tweaked a bit or something. Most likely standard tweaks that they do on all chips or something, but it doesn't look like they've done anything insanely stupid like totally disabling knock retard... It's probably just a tiny bit of improvement over the stock chip, pretty expensive compared to a real tuned chip like the Ultimate.
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Blake
Guest
Do you have the Thermomaster or Street? If you have the thermomaster(or whatever they call it)take it out and put the stock memcal back in by itself. I bought it for the carrier so I could put a zif in it. I called Hypertech up to see what kind of info they could give me on boost limits, mph limits, rev limit, fuel cutoff etc just to see what I was getting(eprom was getting erased anyway). Guess what? They didn't know a damned thing. Amazing really. They didn't know what made one (street/thermomaster) different from the other and didn't know what to do other than "put in a lower temp thermostat, an AFPR, and a fan switch." I'm a dick so I explain to them that the syty's didn't come with an electric fan and the CAC pump could be enabled at lower temps with settings within the stock memcal. You'd think I was talking French or something based on their silence. They just sell them. No telling who made the program on it.
If you have the thermomaster and love it, you're killing your engine. I used Promgrammer (thanks Bill) and checked it out myself. They took the F77 table and just maxed out every single entry. No matter what throttle position you have your foot at, boost is pegged. Very little adjustment was made to the volumetric efficiency tables, and the TC lockup point is raised, and timing is advanced. Why would you advance timing with higher boost levels and very little if any change in fueling? This chip didn't make sense. Do yourself a favor, go with the stock Memcal or get an Ultimate 3 Bar and keep it on the T-15 setting until you get your truck where you like it, then you can just change the program and not the chip. Very flexible unit. Yeah, that sounded good :roll:
Just an opinion,
Blake
If you have the thermomaster and love it, you're killing your engine. I used Promgrammer (thanks Bill) and checked it out myself. They took the F77 table and just maxed out every single entry. No matter what throttle position you have your foot at, boost is pegged. Very little adjustment was made to the volumetric efficiency tables, and the TC lockup point is raised, and timing is advanced. Why would you advance timing with higher boost levels and very little if any change in fueling? This chip didn't make sense. Do yourself a favor, go with the stock Memcal or get an Ultimate 3 Bar and keep it on the T-15 setting until you get your truck where you like it, then you can just change the program and not the chip. Very flexible unit. Yeah, that sounded good :roll:
Just an opinion,
Blake
syclonekid43
New member
im all new to the programing thing but i can tell you one thing from what i heard from people on syty stay away from hypertech. i learned the hard way. when i first got my sy it had a hypertech in it. i never knew it was there till i blew up my motor then they gave my some bullshit about getting a new motor because the chip was in there. finally i got my motor and a new computer. that chip was noyhing but headaches overboost the motor cut out on me. STAY AWAY FROM HYPERTECH. its garbage. same thing happened to me when i called them to find out what the chip did they knew nothing. :fist: